Innocence
,Women
,Aug 17, 2021
A coalition of advocates for victims of domestic and gender-based violence, former prosecutors, legal scholars, and innocence organizations have filed briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court in support of a Texas woman w…
Innocence
,Clemency
,Mar 28, 2022
Nearly 90 members of the Texas House of Representatives from across the ideological spectrum have issued a bipartisan call for the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles and Governor Greg Abbott to grant clemency to death-row prisoner…
Arbitrariness
,Women
,Feb 17, 2021
Continuing an unparalleled pattern of rulings adverse to Texas death-row prisoners, a divided U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has reinstated the conviction and death sentence of a mother convicted of killing her two-ye…
Innocence
,Women
,Jul 31, 2019
Citing trial court interference in her right to present a defense, a federal appeals court has overturned the conviction of a Texas mother who was sentenced to death on charges that she had murdered her two-year-old daughter. In an unpublished, un…
Innocence
,International
,Representation
,Upcoming Executions
,Conditions on Death Row
,Mar 02, 2022
Lawyers for Texas death-row prisoner Melissa Lucio (pictured) have moved to vacate her April 27, 2022 execution date and remove the judge and district attorney in her case because of conflicts of interest stemming…
Innocence
,Women
,Feb 04, 2022
The state of Texas has issued a death warrant seeking to execute Melissa Lucio (pictured), a battered woman who was sentenced to death for what may have been an accidental fall that killed her two-year-old daughte…
Innocence
,Upcoming Executions
,Apr 25, 2022
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has halted the scheduled April 27, 2022 execution of Melissa Lucio
Innocence
,Representation
,Women
,Oct 25, 2021
The U.S. Supreme Court on October 18, 2021 denied review in the case of Texas death-row prisoner Melissa Elizabeth Lucio (pictured). Lucio was convicted and sentenced to death on charges that she murdered her two…
New Voices
,May 12, 2022
Saying that recent events in Texas’ attempt to execute death-row prisoner Melissa Lucio had shaken his faith in the criminal legal system, an influential Republican state legislator has said that he would now supp…
